Uruguay named its flag's sun after a moment: the golden Sun of May, which appeared as a good omen over Buenos Aires during the 1810 uprising against Spanish rule. It sits in a white canton on nine alternating white and blue stripes, one for each of the country's original departments. White stands for peace, blue for the sky and rivers.
What 🇺🇾 means
A horizontal arrangement of thin white and blue stripes alternately placed across a rectangular flag and stamped with a white block on the top-right corner that bases a prominent print of the Sun of May.
The 🇺🇾 Flag: Uruguay emoji represents the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, a South American country situated in the southeastern region of the continent. This emoji is shown as 'UY' on platforms that don't support flag emojis.
How and when to use it
Other Names
- 🇺🇾 Flag of Uruguay
- 🇺🇾 Flag of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- 🇺🇾 Uruguayan Flag
- 🇺🇾 Country Code - UY
The lowdown
- Category
- Flags › country-flag
- Codepoints
U+1F1FA U+1F1FE- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:uruguay:GitHub:flag-uy:Slack:flag_uy:Discord:uy:Discord- Keywords
- flag
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🇺🇾 Flag: Uruguay or 🪻 Hyacinth?